There's currently a fuss here because so-called "biodegradable" shopping bags only "biodegrade" into very small bits of plastic and so-called "compostable" shopping bags don't compost unless you have...

I don't know why, but it seems to be raining second-hand Anne McCaffrey books in Wellington right now. I was in two bookstores that had a whole shelf of them - so I put a hardback copy of "The White...

Remember that genetic engineering was just some crazy science fiction idea when Anne was actually writing this - when science outruns science fiction things can get confused. I might carry something...